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Title: American Studies by Mark Merlis ISBN: 0-14-025090-5 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: January, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Among the best of all gay novels
Comment: American Studies, very sadly out of print at the moment (but surely not for long), is one of the great gay novels of the 20th century. Narrated by a gay man in hospital after being beaten by a trick, the novel tells the story of F.O. Matthiessen, a great American literary critic who committed suicide in 1950 after being outed and ostracized at Harvard, where he taught for more than twenty years. Most importantly, though, Merlis writes like an angel, every sentence beautifully made, charming, amusing, and moving. It is as perfect as a novel can be.
Rating: 4
Summary: Been there
Comment: I'm lesbian, not gay but I have mant gay friends.and being 73 now I lived thru the McCarthyite era, the witch hunts, being scared to go to gay bars which were likely to be raided (REALLY!) and the fear of losing your job if you were discovered. It was a chilling time and the author tells it like it was. We HAVE come a long way, baby!! Read this book to discover how it was like to be gay/lesbian back in the Dark Ages when homosexuality was a psychiatric disorder. BORN TOO LATE!!
Rating: 5
Summary: Simply one of the Best "Gay" Novels written
Comment: There seldom comes into my reading life a book as fine as this one. I read a lot of books, and frequently try new authors being published for the first time. This book completely blew me away. The author has such a wonderful command of our language - using phrases and words to their best advantage. He exhibits such an intense ability to get inside his characters - to be able to give them feelings that are so easily conveyed to his reader. I laughed at times, I cried at times. This is one of those fine examples of books that you don't want to finish - you simply sigh at the end and wish for more.
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Title: An Arrow's Flight : A Novel by Mark Merlis ISBN: 0312242883 Publisher: Griffin Trade Paperback Pub. Date: 24 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Man About Town by Mark Merlis ISBN: 0007156111 Publisher: Fourth Estate Pub. Date: 29 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Where the Boys Are by William J. Mann ISBN: 0758203268 Publisher: Kensington Pub Corp Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: The Men from the Boys by William J. Mann ISBN: 0452278562 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: War Against the Animals: A Novel by Paul Russell ISBN: 0312209355 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 27 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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